, Interaction PointEvents and Happenings

in the SLAC CommunityJuly 2002, Volume 13, No. 6

SLAC User Lodging Moving Ahead

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MANY OF THE SCIENTISTS and researchers who use SLAC

facilities are required to be here for short periods of time,

from several days to several weeks, throughout the year.

They need a home away from home. They need SLAC User

Lodging.On June 12, on the small bluffjust east of the Sand Hill

Road entrance, construction of the new Stanford-fundedSLAC User Lodging Project began. The first step of the

project involved relocating 14,000 cubic yards of soil to an

approved relocation area near Sector 16-a daunting task!It was necessary to remove this large amount of soil so that

very little of the building would be visible from Sand Hill

Road. One third of the three-floor User Lodging will sit in a

depression and from the front lobby entrance it will appearto be a two-story structure.

The SLAC User Lodging will be managed by Stanford

University Housing and will have 112 rooms, some with bunk

beds. Each room will have a window, a private bathroom,

television, phone, network access, and blackout curtains

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for daytime sleepers. There will also be a patio garden with

a view of the Bay, laundry facilities, communal lounge areas,

a convenience store, a 24-hour front desk and a small fitnessroom.

User Lodging will offer a range of benefits: economy,less travel to and from the lab each day, a reduced need for

rental cars, more sleep time, more work time and a greater

sense of community.Many laboratories around the world offer lodging at

their sites. With SLAC's increasing User population and

exciting physics program, our User Lodging will aid the

physics community by making SLAC a more pleasant and

economical place to visit.-Roz Pennacchi and Tom Mead

The Interaction Point © 2002, is published by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Editor-in-chief, Janice Dabney; Production Editor,

Vickee Flynn. Unless otherwise indicated, all photographic work done by Diana Rogers. Deadline for articles is the tenth of every

month. Items are published on a space-available basis and are subject to edit. Submissions may be sent electronically to

tip@slac.stanford.edu or by SLAC ID mail to TIP, MS 20. Phone (650) 926-4208.1

Director's Corner

by Jonathan Dorfan

I AM VERY PLEASED to welcometwo visiting physicists for a newsummer fellowship at SLAC. Dr.Stephen Egarievwe and Dr.Stephen McGuire are the firstFellows as part of this newpartnership between SLAC and

four historically black colleges: Fisk University, PaineCollege, Savannah State University, and SouthernUniversity and A & M College. Al Ashley, a long-timeSLAC employee who retired from Employee Relations,initiated this wonderful program.

The program is funded primarily by a grant toPaine College from the Department of Energy andNASA. Each summer, from one to four faculty membersfrom these universities will be joining a SLAC facultymember to learn and contribute to the research beingdone at SLAC.

Egarievwe is an Assistant Professor in thedepartment of Math and Computer Science at FiskUniversity as well as an Assistant Research Professorat the NASA Center for Photonic Materials and Devices.He did his undergraduate work in nuclear physics andengineering and received his Ph.D. in Applied Physicsfrom Alabama A & M University. At Fisk, he primarilyteaches computer science classes. At SLAC this summerhe will be working with Charles Prescott, Group A, onthe Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) Project. Heexpects to learn a lot about instrumentation throughthis project. Egarievwe has already absorbed ideas thathe can incorporate into his lab at Fisk.

McGuire is Professor and Chair of the Departmentof Physics at Southern University and A & M College.He is no stranger to SLAC as he was an invited lecturerat our Summer Science Program during its early years.McGuire has been on the faculty at Cornell Universityand Alabama A & M University, and has experience atOakridge and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.At SLAC, he will be working on one of his own projectswith Piero Pianetta, SSRL, using the SSRLMicrocontamination station to determine trace metalcontamination on optics for the LIGO project.

40th Anniversary CountdownThis Month in SLAC History:

40 years ago:July 1962. Groundbreaking; construction of SLAC starts.33 years ago:July 1969: Sid Drell becomes Deputy Director of SLAC.29 years ago:July 7, 1973. SPEAR's first synchrotron radiation experimentbegins operation inside the tunnel (see photo at bottom).28 years ago:July, 1974. Construction of a $2.9 million SLAC ComputerServices (SCS) building begins.25 years ago:July, 1977. MARK I detector is dismantled and removed fromSPEAR; MARK II detector is installed at SPEAR; and a newinjector for polarized electrons, PEGGY II, is installed on themain accelerator.24 years ago:July, 1978. SPEAR storage ring operates as a dedicatedsynchrotron radiation source under a special arrangementbetween SSRL and SLAC made possible by a grant from theNational Science Foundation.16 years ago:July, 1986. SLAC presented with Stanford's first AffirmativeAction Recognition Award for the Summer Science Program(SSP).14 years ago:July, 1988. Record heat wave of 105° strikes Palo Alto, shuttingdown the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) microprocessors.11 years ago:July 15-19, 1991. SLAC's first Summer Science Workshop forTeachers held.4 years ago:1998: On July 10, the PEP-II B-Factory positron ringinstallation is completed; on July 11-12, the Low Energy Ring(LER) is completed and successfully stores a positron beam,marking the end of construction for the machine; and on July16, the first positron beam is stored in PEP-II.3 years ago:July 12, 1999. Luminosity at BABAR reaches 5.6x103 2cm-2sec-1.

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X-Band ain't X-FilesHEP LABORATORIES AT SLAC and around the world haveadvanced our depth of understanding of fundamentalparticles and forces to the point where deeper interrogationof nature will require that the high-energy physicscommunity design, build and take command of a new kind oflinear accelerator 10 times more energetic than the 2-milelong SLAC linac.

The SLAC linac uses S-band microwaves at 3 gigahertzto accelerate beams of electrons and positrons to energiesup to 50 GeV. The SLC, the world's first linear collider,collided those beams for high-energy physics experimentsfrom 1989 to 1998.

The concept for the next linear collider, called NLChere at SLAC, is a pair of colliding, 500-GeV linacs, eachenergized by high-power, 11 gigahertz X-band microwaves.The S-band microwaves we use to energize the SLAC linachave about a 4-inch wavelength; the X-band envisioned forNLC has a wavelength of about 1 inch. Because of thehigher microwave frequency (and correspondingly shorterwavelength), the NLC accelerators will be capable ofimparting more of an energy boost to the beam over anygiven distance. Boost per distance is called the"acceleration gradient." NLC physicists expect to achievethe desired 10X increase in beam energy with only a 3Xincrease in linear accelerator length.

The properties of the X-band also permit a significantimprovement in overall electrical efficiency. NLC designersare working to minimize the cost of construction andoperation of facilities used for advancing the exploration ofparticle physics. Improvements in all three areas have alreadybeen shown in R&D at the SLAC NLC Test Accelerator, wherethe X-band technology is under development.

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accelerator are being developed as a collaboration amongSLAC, Fermilab, LLNL, the KEK Laboratory in Japan (wherethe next linear collider is called JLC), and by several smallhigh-technology companies in the US funded by DOE SmallBusiness Innovative Research grants.

Many mysteries of high-energy physics awaitinvestigation with the 500 GeV colliding beams that will beused within the next linear collider. Because land and moneyare limited, the most efficient way of approaching thoseenergies is to increase the acceleration gradient andoperational efficiency of linear accelerators by exploitingthe benefits of the X-band range of microwaves.

High gradient X-band acceleration will be 21 st centuryphysics.

-Ted Lavine and Tom Mead

New Department Head, Deputy and Home for EFD

RESEARCH DIVISION'S EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIESDepartment (EFD) has a new Department Head, JohnWeisend (above right), and new Deputy Head, PerryAnthony (above left). In addition to this change inleadership, EFD has set up its main operations in a newlocation. EFD is now located on the first floor of Building280-A. To familiarize everyone with the new location,Weisend and Anthony, along with the rest of the EFD staff,will host an Open House for the SLAC community on July 9.

Everyone is welcome to drop by and talk to Departmentmembers about some of the many projects that EFD helpssupport.

Weisend gives EFD's mission as "Simply put, wesupport experiments at SLAC. Perry and I have the privilegeof working with a group of highly skilled professionals toaccomplish this mission." EFD has expertise in custom beamline components, cryogenics, data acquisition, electronics,vacuum systems, mechanical design, and projectmanagement. Currently, they are involved with BABAR, fixedtarget experiments in End Station A, test beams andexperiments in FFTB, LCLS, PEL, ARDB, Group B and smallexperiments both at SLAC and on campus. Anthony says,"EFD is a whirlwind of activity. On any given day you canwork on cryogenic SQUIDs (superconducting quantuminterference devices) in the morning, high rate real-time dataacquisition after lunch, and concrete shielding walls beforeheading home. This dynamic environment is both excitingand challenging for everyone in the Department."

-Perry Anthony, Vickee Flynn, and John Weisend3

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Summer Fellow Announced

SLAC WELCOMES JENNIFERJOYCE as the first Katherine E.Pope Summer Fellow. Joyce is afifth year student at theUniversity of Massachusetts,Amherst with a double major inphysics and chemistry. Evenwith this rigorous academicpursuit, she still has time forsoccer, hiking, kayaking, andcamping. She also likes to "foolaround" with computers,learning new languages as wellas understanding the hardware.She eventually wants to teach.This summer, Joyce will be

working at SLAC with Stanley Hertzbach, SLD, and GuyBlaylock, BABAR, studying how to optimize the signalseparation between BB events and background in the BABAR

detector.We think Joyce embodies the spirit of the Pope

Fellowship. It was established to remember the life ofKatherine E. Pope, an undergraduate student from SmithCollege in Massachusetts, who was working at SLAC underthe direction of her physics advisor. Pope was tragicallykilled in July 2001, while riding a bicycle on her way to SLAC(see TIP article at http.://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/tip/pdf/tipO801.pdJ). Pope was a young renaissance womanwith a fascination not only for physics but also for history,art and animals. Her warm personality and sense of humormade her an excellent colleague. Even as an undergraduate,she had earned her place on the publication list for one ofSLAC's experiments. This fellowship honors Katherine Popeand encourages other undergraduates with an interest inscience, especially physics, to pursue their academic interestat SLAC.

Family Day Update

ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2002, SLAC employees and theirfamilies will be "celebrating 40 years of accelerating" at thebiennial Family Day 40th anniversary celebration.

In addition to great food, games, prizes and music,this Family Day will also include a vintage car show and art,crafts and hobby show. Watch for your opportunity tosign up for a spot in the car show to display your vintagecar or motorcycle. If art, crafts and hobbies are moreinteresting to you, you can display your talents or sell yourwares. Space in these shows will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Watch for the announcements toreserve your place.

-Carmella Huser

Riordan Wins Award

CONGRATULATIONS TO MICHAEL RIORDAN, untilrecently science writer at SLAC, who was awarded the 2002Andrew Gemant Award for Communicating Physics by theAmerican Institute of Physics.

"Riordan's work has enhanced the public'sappreciation of physics as a source of beneficialapplications and as an integral part of our intellectual life,"a citation accompanying the award said.

Riordan, who earned a physics Ph.D. from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology now lectures atStanford University and teaches a course at UCSC called"The Quantum Century" about 20th-century physics. Hisarticles and book reviews have appeared in majorpublications including the New York Times and TechnologyReview. Riordan has written several books, including TheSolar Home Book. Heating, Cooling, and Designing withthe Sun, a best-seller he co-authored with Bruce Anderson,and The Hunting of the Quark, winner of the 1988 AmericanInstitute of Physical Science Writing Award. Past recipientsof the award include Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg,and Freeman Dyson-a select crew.

-Neil Calder

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HAVING WORKED AT THE front desk of the SLAC Libraryfor 18 months now, I have come to believe that the libraryis one of SLAC's (warning: incoming pun) best 'HEP'secrets. But the library (second floor, Central Lab) is notjust for HEP folk. The library staff and resources serveoffice administrators, engineers, machinists, carpenters,and just about anybody who has a SLAC badge.

Did you know?...

*The Library staff will visit SLAC employees in theiroffices to answer questions as well as assist in findinginformation and using online research-related databasesavailable from either SLAC or Stanford including, ofcourse, SPIRES, our homegrown physics database.

*Upon request, the Library staff will also attend groupmeetings to promote and demonstrate the wealth ofelectronic resources available from your desktop.

We can...

*Demonstrate how to use the Stanford Library SocratesCatalog to find what you want quickly and accurately.

*Instruct you in fast, effective web searching techniques.

*Show you how to access electronic journals availablethrough SLAC and Stanford University Libraries.

*Show you how to use useful literature databases, suchas SPIRES and INSPEC.

AWARDSRiordan, Michael, formerly with SLAC, awarded the 2002Andrew Gemant Award for Communicating Physics by theAmerican Institute of PhysicsGosal, Balbir, MFD; Farvid Ali, MFD; Kirby, Robert, PEL;Regan, Mary, KLY; Cellamare, Richard, WM; Morales,Harold, SSRL; Hug, Michael, EPR; Byers, Butch, EPR,the Champion of Green Government award, presentedduring the May 2002, Federal Facilities Conference inSparks, Nevada

SERVICE AWARDSMetcalfe, Stuart, AD, 5 years, 7/15/02Morris, Dianne, MD, 15 years, 7/1/02Myers, William, SEM, 15 years, 7/1/02Lavine, Theodore, NLC, 15 years, 7/14/02West, Sharon, TIS, 15 years, 7/16/02Colon, Jeffrey, OHP, 15 years, 7/29/02Wright, Daniel, AD-Mech. Supp, 25 years, 7/18/02Bienenstock, Arthur, ESRD Materials Res/User Supp, 35years, 7/1/02Weber, Thomas, EFD Research Supp B, 35 years, 7/3/02

MARRIEDEscudero, John, PUR, to Kammer, Laurie, BUD, on 6/8/02Bower, Gary, SLD, to Flynn, Vickee, EFD, on 6/15/02

DECEASEDFiedor Adolph (Ted), retired from Klystron, passed awayearly in May, age 86Gray, Robin, Accelerator Dept., on 6/12/02Norton, Frank, retired from Accounting, passed away on2/24/02, age 79

Email milestones to tip@slac.stanford.edu.For expanded information, see httpwww.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/t

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*Show you how to upload your theory, research,computing, and instrumentation papers to the (formerlyLANL, now Cornell) arXiv.

*Inform you about resources and services offered by theSLAC Library.

*Answer any questions you may have about how the SLACLibrary can help you stay informed, find the unfindable,and get you the data you need (and not the data youdon't!) effectively, thoroughly and accurately.

Contact the reference librarian, Kim Sutton at x4388,ksutton@slac.stanford.edu, to schedule a visit.

-Lesley Wolf and Kim Sutton

Juneteenth Celebration

CelebrtDay, held June 13,2002.

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the Army's prestigious 82nd Airborne (All American)Division and later in the Air Force. His foreign serviceincluded duty in wartime Lebanon and Vietnam.

Beach joined SLAC after retiring from a military careerthat spanned 20-years. He then went on to have a verysuccessful career at SLAC, literally rising through the ranks.Beach ultimately assumed responsibility for the maintenanceand upkeep of all electrical power conversion systems atSLAC. He also played major roles in the design, installationand commissioning of power conversion systems for severalprojects, the most recent being the PEP II project.

Beach was known for being a very affable and colorful

JOHN BEACH, RESEARCH TECHNICAL ManaLeader of the Power Systems Operations Sup]the Electronic Software and Engineering Deparetired on April 30, shortly after celebrating hanniversary on April 11th of this year.

WE HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMPIONS in our midst.The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hasannounced that the SLAC Alternative Solvents Team hasbeen recognized and distinguished with the Champion ofGreen Government award. Karin King, the Regional PollutionPrevention Coordinator in the Oakland, CA DOE office,escalated the team nomination to the national level. Theaward was presented by the EPA during the May 2002,Federal Facilities Conference in Sparks, Nevada.

This award represents the summit of an ascension thatbegan in 1993 when an interdepartmental team begandeveloping alternatives to ozone-depleting solvents to helpSLAC reduce pollution. In the intervening years, the teamhas risen up through municipal and regional-level awardsfor their work. The Champion of Green Government award isthe first national-level recognition of their remarkableresults.

When preparing parts to be used in vacuum chambersand in the LINAC, where even miniscule levels ofcontamination can corrupt research results, the term 'clean'comes to have something of a rather strict definition. Inorder to define the term ("Good, hard scrubbing" was deemedinsufficient), PEL began by using x-ray photoelectronspectroscopy to compare the performance of existingmethods of cleaning parts with new methods and solvents.

As methods were developed to discern what level ofclean constituted 'clean', the Klystron Department replacedtwo vapor degreasers with a low-water aqueous system forcleaning Klystron tubes, SSRL implemented an alternative

(to say the least) character. His retirement luncheon wasiger and Group "standing room only" and included many retired SLACport Group of employees. A good time was had by all. Beach was very wellLrtment (ESD) liked at SLAC and will be missed. Everyone that knew himis 25th SLAC wishes him good luck and a long and happy retirement.

-Paul Bellomo and Pete Segura

Solvents Solved

Tean TFD;Ali Farvid, MFD, Robert Kirby, PEL, Mary Regan, KLY,Richard Cellamare, WM. Back row, left to right, HaroldMorales, SSRL, Michael Hug, EPR; Butch Byers, EPR.

organic-based solvent for cleaning vacuum equipment, andthe Mechanical Fabrication Department (MFD) purchasedand installed a near zero emission vapor degreaser thatrecycles a non-ozone depleting solvent and substantiallyreduces solvent emissions to the atmosphere. This degreaserwas put into regular operating service at SLAC in 1999 byMFD.

SLAC's implementation of the team's recommendationsachieved cleaning needs and reduced emissions of hazardousair pollutants from these operations from an average of 5800pounds per year (over an 11 year period) to as little as 10pounds in 2001.

-Tom Mead

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A Little HistoryIT HAPPENED 43 YEARS ago, the date was March 29th,1959, the place Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was early inthe morning outside of the Presbyterian Church. Crowdshad gathered around to greet the President of the UnitedStates as he, his wife and their family exited Easter Sundaymorning services. Unbeknownst to the President, DwightDavid Eisenhower, but surely with the blessing of the SecretService staff, a gift was about to be bestowed upon him.

Robert Reif, atage 3, hands apresent to Presi-dent Eisenhower.

Walking bravely forward, urged by reporters and family,Robert Reif moved quickly to the rear door of the presidentiallimousine. Upon seeing young Reif at the window, PresidentEisenhower slowly rolled the window down, and accepted apaper bag that was offered-this bag contained a gift fromReif. Looking into the bag the President laughed as hediscovered and cupped in his hands a baby chick. The giftwas gladly accepted and the chick lived out its days on theEisenhower farm in Gettysburg, PA.

The Reif family had been on a trip to the Gettysburgarea and had purchased the chick in a service station earlierin the morning. It was the idea of the local media to presentthe chick as a gift to the President, hoping to add to theinterest of the day's story.

Shortly after this date, on May 14th, 1959, PresidentEisenhower endorsed the proposal for the Stanford LinearAccelerator. Coincidence? You decide. Reif, who is a longtime SLAC employee in group EB, was three years old at thetime.

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New Communications StaffIntroduced

JONI WHITE IS THE newAdministrative Associate in theCommunications Office. In thiscapacity, she provides admin-istrative support for NeilCalder, Director of Communi-cations, and for the otherCommunications officemembers. Her routine tasksinclude compiling pressclippings from current journalsfor distribution to labdirectors, making travelarrangements, purchasingsupplies, maintaining files and

(l-r) Joni White and Tom records, scheduling meetingsMead. and appointments and easing

inter-department communication. She also helps answercorrespondence and requests from the media. As theCommunications Office expands, "I am excited to have theopportunity to improve information flow to all SLAC staff,"White said.

Tom Mead started at SLAC in April as the first sciencewriter in the new Communications Office. The essential coreof his work is to communicate complex particle physicsconcepts and developments in the form of articles and pressreleases to both generalist and specialized audiences. Meadwrites at all points along the continuum, from the denselytechnical science-journal level (he is working with SLACstaff on an article for the CERN Courier) to the wide-eyedkid level (he is trying to interest My Weekly Reader in anarticle about ball lightning). "I often feel that the title forthe position should be Science Writer/Translator, as I workwith, and for, SLAC staff to translate the complexities oftheir work into clear, accurate journalistic prose for theenormous, intelligent, but non-scientific audience out there.I work to put into the readers hands a sense of the beautyand power of scientific inquiry."

Mead also writes SLAC brochures and articles for TIPand the Stanford Report. "I hope the SLAC communitycomes to understand that I am a resource for them," he said.You can call him at x5133, email tmead@slac.stanford.edu.

-Tom Mead

Dear Bobby:

Thank you so much for giving to me, as Ileft Church services this morning, whatI am certain was your prized iaster gift --a little chicken,

I hope you mnd your famxily are havixira happy Easter here in Gettysburg. Toall of you X send my good wiahes,

Sincerely,

Bobby Reif,4 Beaver Circle,Stratford, New Jersey.

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Don 't forget to check the racks outside the Benefits Office(Bldg. 41, Rm. 236) for brochures and discount couponsto make your summer vacation planning even easier!

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authoring/ to see the skills that a beginning and advanced web author should have. I'm working on backgroundmaterial for each skill. To start, you need to become familiar with the policies under which we operate, identify your web

support coordinator, determine where your web site will be located (we have both Unix- and Windows-based web servers),get the necessary computer accounts, and obtain permission to write to the web space.

Next, it is time to consider the nature of your web site. What content will you provide? Should the information be

public or restricted-to-SLAC access? Who is the audience-SLAC employees, collaborators and users, the general

public, schools, or others? What computing platform and browsers are they using? Are they working on fast computersand high-speed lines or slow dialup connections? These factors will all have an impact on site design.

Now you need to learn to write HTML or learn to use a tool, such as FrontPage, to create or edit the web pages.

Other skills include organizing the content so it is easy to use, creating PDF files, understanding cross-browser

compatibility and content accessibility issues, web graphic file formats, the impact images can have on download speed,meta-tags for improved indexing, how to keep a clean web, collecting information with a web form, and when and who toask for help.

Feel free to send me your questions-use the form at the bottom of the authoring page. I will collect the informationinto a FAQ site for others to use.

Refresher Training:Definition of STOP

AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY,VERB: "To bring or come to an end orhalt." Octagonal red signs with whiteletters stating "STOP" do not presenta complicated message. And it's notoptional-someone's life may dependupon it. Just ask that person you sawjump back from the curb as a car

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Loop Road intersection without stopping. Just ask theemployee who was walking from the Central Lab to theComputer Building and was narrowly missed by a Chevytruck whizzing through the stop sign, occupying thecrosswalk simultaneously. Just ask yourself when you do a"soft stop" on the way out the Main Gate and cut it tooclose with a merging car or bicycle.

The recent Talk, Walk, Clean (TWC) discussionsreminded us of the concern many employees share aboutsafety on SLAC roads. The first two intersections mentionedearlier are prime near-miss areas, and though moreengineering controls can be implemented (flashing lights,speed bumps), wouldn't it be less costly and more effectiveif we all took responsibility for driving safely on site? Yourdriving habits outside the SLAC boundaries may effect us ifwe share your commute, but Operating Safety Committee'smission is to increase safe behavior on site. Toward thisgoal, OSC monitors the effectiveness of the Traffic ControlProgram (https: //www-internal. slac. stanford.edu/

do/allhands/2002-02-Ol.pdf) and has been assigned

TWC '02 traffic safety concerns by the ES&HCC. We will be

TIPS from TIP*Have questions about investing for your retirement?Arrange a one-on-one counseling session with arepresentative from Fidelity, TIAA-CREF, or Vanguard.Contact information and upcoming dates can be found onthe SLAC Benefits web page at http://www-

group.slac.stanford.edu/hr/b/retirement.html.

*Take advantage of existing methods to inform people aboutyour schedule, including outgoing voicemail and emailmessages. Follow these steps, and you'll calm the nervesof many co-workers trying to reach you:Voicemail: Dial 4242 from an internal phone (650-926-4242from outside SLAC) and after you've punched in yourextension and password, dial "8-2-2" and then "5" to recordan internal outgoing message (press "#" when done). You

can listen to the existing greeting by pressing "2" and eraseit by pressing "76." Even if you're out for just a day, peoplewon't keep waiting for your call, and you can give a back-upname/number to keep operations moving. Put a post-it onyour earpiece to remind yourself when you return that youneed to change your message back to current status.

Next month: Part II - How to Use Outlook's "Out of OfficeAssistant" - it's easy!

examining ways to enforce vehicle registration and motivatesupervisors to put more muscle behind the program.

Even those of us who resist authority can understandthe merit of following some simple rules of the road.Individual freedom is not compromised by respect foranother's freedom. Remember: the life saved by that stoppingvehicle might be yours.

-Janice Dabney, ChairOperating Safety Committee

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